James Llewellyn

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About James Llewellyn

James Llewellyn, Associate Manager - Southeast Asia at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, manages the Chamber’s advocacy and research efforts on behalf of Chamber members and Fortune 500 companies in Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. He has more than five years of experience working at membership-based nonprofits focused on improving US engagement with the Asia-Pacific and living in region, including living and studying in Malaysia and New Zealand. Prior to joining the Chamber in 2024, James was a Program Associate on the National Democratic Institute’s (NDI) Asia-Pacific team, Program Associate of the United States-Indonesia Society (USINDO), and Political Affairs Program Assistant at the US-Asia Institute (USAI). He holds a Master’s in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a Bachelor’s in Politics and International Affairs with specializations in Middle East and South Asia Studies, and Arabic from Wake Forest University. James developed professional and academic interests in Southeast Asia while living as a high school exchange student in Malaysia for one year through the State Department’s Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES-Abroad) Program in 2012, serving as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant to Malaysia in 2020, and completing the U.S-portion of a Boren Fellowship under the Indonesian Flagship Language Initiative (IFLI) studying Bahasa Indonesia in 2021.